Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-04-21
AMUSING TIE MILLIONS.

A Gigantic Enterprise by Adam Forspaugf
A Great Travelling show, Combined
with Ills New Olympus to be Located on
Staten Island.
For nearly a quarter of q century Adam
FOrepaugh has been sole proprietor OF
travelling show. Il has annually grown
larger and larger under his shrewd man
agement, until now it has attained to three
times its former magnitude. The whole
vast combination of triple Circus, double
Menagerie and dual HipprOdrome has been
supplemented by newly remOdeled Wild
West Show with the great Custer
Battle added rs presented by
him in Madison Square Garden,
New York, during the past winter when he
paid over sixty thousand dollars for seen
cry alone. His new Olympia is a sort Ol
ancient Grecian and Roman sports rediri-
aus.
Monday, May 9th, the show will visit
Wheeling fresh from its metropolitan con-
quests. 1t will be the recipient Of q
grander ovation here than ever before.
There are so many new and unique lea
lures added since last here that it becomes,
in addition To the traditional circus and
menagerie, n species of dramatiZed border
life and Indian tragedies in the wild West.
Speaking of the future prospects OF the
great Snowman, after making brief tour
in the west as far ~ Chicago, and OF its
relation to Erastina, New York, the Phila-
delphia Record of last Saturday says:
Contracts made between Adam Fore
naugh and Erastus Wiman, of New York,
and involving 81 900, 900, are the fore
runners Of gigantic amusement enter
prise that is perhaps unriyaled inthe his
tory of shows. At Erastina, on Staten
Island, within easy reach of 8, OOO, 900 peO'
Pile, sixteen acres Of wooded land have
been converted into vast show ground
Grand stands are constructed on three
sides, capable of seating $1,000 people.
Within this inclOusre is Roman hippo
drOme track seyenty-tiye feet wide anC
over One-third of mile around-the finest
ever seen since the days Of the Circu:
Maximus of Rome. The forest is TO b.
converted into grand Jungle Menagerie
with artificial lakes large enough to hold 4
world of amphibiOuS animals. Here Mr.
POrepaugh' SSea lions, Important, PtolemaiC
leyiathans, Egyptian crOcOdileS, Floridi
alhgatOrs, and all other amphibiOus Great
ures can dispOrt themselves at their own
pleasure. His elk, moose, deer, bullaloes
and oil other harmless animals will rOau
at will, breathing rs pure and free air n
ever stirred in zephyrs on the Western
plains. Here, too, whole tribes Of gen
uine North American Indians, with all ia,
essential concOmitants OF his new great re-
modelled Wild West Show, will find theii
home as picturesque in its sylvan outline,
As any drama ever portrayed by the mos
chiyalrOus OF this romantic aye. High
among the summer branches of the tree:
will freely gambOl preheusile tribes of tn,
family of Simia, Is free and unrestraineI
rs the characteristic monkeys of the trop'
les so graphically described by Hum
bOldt, a Darwin and q Montalembert
Black, brown, grizzly and POonah hear:
will also disport themselves among tn,
pOnderOus branches as independently a
any four-lOOted refugee in eminent domain
The opening Of the midsummer cam
Paign will commence on Monday, June p